Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Lol, what do the young storks say they'll do to the boys' eyes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: young storks, storks · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 storks	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 storks	amod
7	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boys	det
14	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eyes	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 boys	case
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	the young storks not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the young storks		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	future	storks = stork	to the boys's eyes	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Bite them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pick them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick out	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Peck them hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peck	peck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Peck	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Peck	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	imperative	you not said here	them = they				hard property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Blind them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blind	blind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blind	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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